Meaning of minorate | Babel Free

Definitions

1. To diminish.
   archaic
2. To replace a term by its lower bound.

Equivalents

Examples

“this present Act, or any Thing therein contained, shall not extend nor take place to abridge, deprive or minorate any Liberties, Privilege or Authority of any Lords Marchers”

“Forget not how assuefaction unto any thing minorates the passion from it, how constant Objects loose their hints, and steal an inadvertisement upon us.”

“Assuefaction minorates atrocities (as Tully saith of his darling Stoics) and Hamlet his father showeth the prince no blister of combustion.”

“Analogously, we can minorate, replacing sin x with −1, then, by applying the first method it follows that:[…]”

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